When I cleared security at Terminal 3 there was an American agent just past the checkpoint yelling "whether you're on the AA109,please proceed to gate 31 immediately." It was around 11AM at this point, so I figured they were on final boarding, and something. It's otherwise not normal for an agent to be stationed at the checkpoint to direct people to a specific gate. After all,that's what departures monitors are for.
I skipped the lounge and headed towards gate 31, which was quite a hike. Upon getting to gate 31 I found the gate to not even be open yet. As a matter of fact, and passengers were just finishing up deplaning from the inbound flight,which had near from Dallas. It would have been a 5-10 minute walk to catch back to the lounge, so I decided to simply sit on the floor near the gate so I could catch some work done, and rather than trekking back and forth,especially as the flight still showed as being on-time. One of the few redeeming qualities of Heathrow (other than it being grand for physical activity) is that it has hasty and free wifi.
About 20 minutes later the gate opened, at which point there must have been a queue a couple of hundred people deep to enter it. So I stayed seated just next to the gate area, and once the line died down I headed into the "holding pen."The post Review: American Business lesson 777-300ER London To Los Angeles appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com